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Today marks the on-time alpha release of the "KDE 6th Megarelease" -- this encompasses the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop, KDE Frameworks 6 libraries, and KDE Gear applications...

Reliving The Authentic 90s Linux Experience  Hackaday

Microsoft engineers continue working on the Mesa drivers as part of their effort for implementing various industry standard APIs atop Direct3D 12. This support can be used in cases of Windows drivers lacking for these APIs as well as being used within WSL for the graphics support while relying on D3D12 with the host environment...

Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.3 Implemented Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa  Phoronix

The staging changes for Linux 6.7 are on the heavier side in part due to many new contributors from Outreachy mailing in their first kernel patches with various minor fixes. But staging is also lightened up a bit by dropping a wired Ethernet and wireless driver as part of the ongoing kernel effort to remove unused and old WiFi drivers...

Linux 6.7 Staging Drops The QLGE Ethernet & rtl8192u WiFi Drivers  Phoronix

Red Hat Launches Next Versions of the World’s Leading Enterprise Linux Platform  Yahoo Finance

With Linux 6.7 the EROFS read-only file-system intended primarily for mobile devices and containers is considering their MicroLZMA compression support as stable...

EROFS No Longer Treating MicroLZMA Compression As Experimental  Phoronix

Google-led App Defense Alliance joins Linux Foundation, with Meta and Microsoft joining too  TechCrunch

Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Out Now with OTA Support for PinePhone and PineTab Devices  9to5Linux

Microsoft yesterday published CBL-Mariner 2.0.20231106 as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution that is used for a variety of services from Azure to WSL...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Issues A Big Update For ...  Phoronix

Over a week later Apex Legends is still broken on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

FEX 2311 is out today as the newest version of this emulator for running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64 systems...

FEX 2311 Brings More AVX Optimizations, Preparations For Better ...  Phoronix

Fedora Linux 39 is out now with GNOME 45, Linux kernel 6.5  GamingOnLinux

Clonezilla Live 3.1.1 Bumps Kernel to Linux 6.5, Adds Many Disk Cloning Improvements  9to5Linux

New TuxCare Partner Program Arms System Integrators with ...  Business Wire

New TuxCare Partner Program Arms System Integrators with Modernized Linux Security Offerings  Yahoo Finance